Pato Hebert is an artist, educator and organizer. He is an Associate Arts Professor and serves as Chair of NYU Tisch’s Department of Art & Public Policy. Hebert has worked in community-based HIV prevention and mobilization since 1994. Engaging primarily with queer people and communities of color, Hebert has worked in small grass-roots efforts, large community-based organizations as well as international organizing and advocacy. He curated exhibitions and led creative initiatives at the International AIDS Conferences in Vienna (2010), Melbourne (2014), Durban (2016) and Amsterdam (2018). Hebert is a COVID-19 long-hauler, living with the impacts of the coronavirus and publicly addressing the pandemic since March of 2020. He has focused particularly on disability justice and the needs of people living with long COVID. His Lingering solo exhibition about long COVID was curated by Ruti Talmor and debuted at Pitzer College in 2022. His writing, commentary and art about COVID have appeared in The Long COVID Survival Guide: How to Take Care of Yourself and What Comes Next (ed. Lowenstein), Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic (eds. Romero, Tucker, Wang), The Los Angeles Times, BOMB, TheBody, ArtsEverywhere, and NACLA — Report on the Americas.